Cole World: Orlando Magic Select Cole Anthony at #15

[MoMM]

TS% by month
November-January: 48.0%
February-March: 56.1%

And that is averaging 22/4/4 shooting 47/40 (8 att per game)/89 after ASG (10 games). The sample size is small, but it's very good. Imagine what we would be saying if Fultz was averaging it during the bubble.

[Bensational]

Here are the full game links I’ve found for Cole Anthony. Game log is linked to enable you to preview statlines before watching the games. Happy scouting!

Cole Anthony - (Game log)
6/10/18: vs. Dominican Republic
6/11/18: vs. Panama
6/12/18: vs. Puerto Rico
6/14/18: vs. Ecuador
6/15/18: vs. Argentina
6/16/18: vs. Canada
7/21/18: vs. Philly Pride
7/29/18: vs. The Truth
3/27/19: vs. West
11/6/19: vs. Notre Dame - (+)
2/1/20: vs. Boston College
2/3/20: @ Florida State
2/8/20: vs. Duke
2/11/20: @ Wake Forest
2/15/20: vs. Gardner-Webb
2/17/20: @ Notre Dame
2/22/20: @ Louisville
2/29/20: @ Syracuse
3/3/20: vs. Wake Forest
3/7/20: @ Duke
3/10/20: vs. Virginia Tech
3/11/20 vs. Syracuse - (-)

I watched the first Duke game last night. It was his 3rs game back from injury. In that game his assists were low but he was, for the most part, being a solid floor general and executing the game plan.

Their half court offense is ugly AF. They had only one other guy who was somewhat capable of driving to the basket. For large chunks Cole played on the weakside, and hangs back like a full back on defense. He was often directing guys on where to be as plays broke down. His teammates had zero feel for the game in this one, even if they were doing well on transition.

Passing wise, he missed some pretty easy open players because he seems to form a set path relatively early with which side of the court he's playing on. But, in transition he was great, advancing the ball up court for fast break points. He would've had 7 assists just off some very easy sitters his teammates missed. His bigs never rolled once off a PnR with him. However, his passes all fall well within DJ's range of capability, if not better. His handles are excellent and he very rarely got trapped with the ball. But because he doesn't have great vision yet he can sometimes split defenders and run straight into another defender.

Defensively, he hustled all game, but in the final 5 minutes he got absolutely lit up by Tre Jones who just kept attacking the rim and closed a 10 point lead almost by himself. Cole also went ice cold offensively over this stretch. But in OT he came back in form and hit some big shots.

Scoring wise, he took a few really bad shots, but overall most of his points came within the flow of the game.

In this game, I saw a very competent and professional looking player. Honestly, I get some very strong DJ vibes from him. I think people will find him guilty of a lot of the things they disliked about DJ (missing passes, over dribbling).

[Knightro]

[MagicFan101]

We have to remember that he was the #15 pick in the draft ... as in, outside the lottery.

If he proves to be a great spark off the bench and can lead the second unit from the backup PG role then this was great value.

If he can become anything more than that then this was a home run pick.

We can’t expect a star from that slot.

[Skin]

In a 2 PG line up:

On offense:
PG Fultz
SG Anthony

On defense:
PG Anthony
SG Fultz

In a 1 PG line up:

Starter: Fultz
Bench: Anthony

Are we all on the same page?
Is a 2 PG line up something that is feasible this year or do you think we'll mostly see Anthony off the bench in place of Markelle?
How do you think Fournier will react to a 2 PG line up?

[pepe1991]

TS% by month
November-January: 48.0%
February-March: 56.1%

And that is averaging 22/4/4 shooting 47/40 (8 att per game)/89 after ASG (10 games). The sample size is small, but it's very good. Imagine what we would be saying if Fultz was averaging it during the bubble.

November - January 51 games played
February - March - 14 games played

Exra kicker for cherry-picking. 9 out of 14 games against teams that didn't make playoffs including all the worst nba teams: Hornets, Knicks, Minessota, Cavs and Wizards ( twice).

[Knightro]

November - January 51 games played
February - March - 14 games played

Exra kicker for cherry-picking. 9 out of 14 games against teams that didn't make playoffs including all the worst nba teams: Hornets, Knicks, Minessota, Cavs and Wizards ( twice).

It's not cherry picking. It's called progression.

It would be cherry picking if we were citing a random 14 game sample in the middle of White's season and White was terrible before that 14 game sample and then went back to being terrible again after that 14 game sample.

But that isn't what happened. White started off really bad like a lot of rookies do and eventually found his sea legs.

Here are a few more examples of last year's lottery picks who got better as they got more experience and learned how to more effectively attack defenses.

RJ Barrett
October-December: 45.6 TS%
January-March: 51.0 TS%

DeAndre Hunter
October-December: 50.6 TS%
January-March: 54.0 TS%

Cam Reddish
October-December: 42.3 TS%
January-March: 57.4 TS%

Jarrett Culver
October-December: 41.8 TS%
January-March: 51.4 TS%

Coby White
October-December: 47.8 TS%
January-March: 53.2 TS%

Sometimes rookies just need time to get acclimated.

[Knightro]

In a 2 PG line up:

On offense:
PG Fultz
SG Anthony

On defense:
PG Anthony
SG Fultz

In a 1 PG line up:

Starter: Fultz
Bench: Anthony

Are we all on the same page?
Is a 2 PG line up something that is feasible this year or do you think we'll mostly see Anthony off the bench in place of Markelle?
How do you think Fournier will react to a 2 PG line up?

I would imagine it will *mostly* be Fultz starting and Anthony backing him up, but Fultz and Augustin did share the floor for about 5.2 minutes per game and I could see Clifford giving Fultz/Anthony a similar look.

That said... when the Magic went to a 2 PG lineup, it was Augustin on the ball and Fultz off the ball in the corner. It actually worked really well before the bubble (+13.3 NET), but wasn't effective at all in the bubble (-6.5 NET) and especially not in the playoffs (-49.0 in 35 minutes).

[VFX]

November - January 51 games played
February - March - 14 games played

Exra kicker for cherry-picking. 9 out of 14 games against teams that didn't make playoffs including all the worst nba teams: Hornets, Knicks, Minessota, Cavs and Wizards ( twice).

It's not cherry picking. It's called progression.

It would be cherry picking if we were citing a random 14 game sample in the middle of White's season and White was terrible before that 14 game sample and then went back to being terrible again after that 14 game sample.

But that isn't what happened. White started off really bad like a lot of rookies do and eventually found his sea legs.

Here are a few more examples of last year's lottery picks who got better as they got more experience and learned how to more effectively attack defenses.

RJ Barrett
October-December: 45.6 TS%
January-March: 51.0 TS%

DeAndre Hunter
October-December: 50.6 TS%
January-March: 54.0 TS%

Cam Reddish
October-December: 42.3 TS%
January-March: 57.4 TS%

Jarrett Culver
October-December: 41.8 TS%
January-March: 51.4 TS%

Coby White
October-December: 47.8 TS%
January-March: 53.2 TS%

Sometimes rookies just need time to get acclimated.

You can basically write off rookie and sophomore seasons as being not too great for most players.

[Bensational]

In Pepe's world a player doesn't exist until they're 30, and then they're too old and about to die. Good players under 30 are unicorns and regarded as such. Everybody is doomed anyway so it doesn't matter.

[pepe1991]

In Pepe's world a player doesn't exist until they're 30, and then they're too old and about to die. Good players under 30 are unicorns and regarded as such. Everybody is doomed anyway so it doesn't matter.

It will be good day when we come back and talk about Coby White in year or two.

For time being we can reminisce all the good old Gordon - Kawhi comparisons from 2015,2016,2017 and 2018

SO how our future DPOY, finals MVP is doing nowdays, 5 years later? How many allstar selections he got? Was he included in all nba first team or Lebron biased media robbed him?

[pepe1991]

November - January 51 games played
February - March - 14 games played

Exra kicker for cherry-picking. 9 out of 14 games against teams that didn't make playoffs including all the worst nba teams: Hornets, Knicks, Minessota, Cavs and Wizards ( twice).

It's not cherry picking. It's called progression.

It would be cherry picking if we were citing a random 14 game sample in the middle of White's season and White was terrible before that 14 game sample and then went back to being terrible again after that 14 game sample.

But that isn't what happened. White started off really bad like a lot of rookies do and eventually found his sea legs.

Here are a few more examples of last year's lottery picks who got better as they got more experience and learned how to more effectively attack defenses.

RJ Barrett
October-December: 45.6 TS%
January-March: 51.0 TS%

DeAndre Hunter
October-December: 50.6 TS%
January-March: 54.0 TS%

Cam Reddish
October-December: 42.3 TS%
January-March: 57.4 TS%

Jarrett Culver
October-December: 41.8 TS%
January-March: 51.4 TS%

Coby White
October-December: 47.8 TS%
January-March: 53.2 TS%

Sometimes rookies just need time to get acclimated.

it's funny who you picked, outside of tragic Knicks, all others are already being replaced by their teams as they have zero desire to keep investing PT in trash projects:

Jarrett Culver- replaced by Beasly and Edwards, basically guy today is already 3rd string SG on roster
Cam Reddish- with Bogdanovic, Huerter, Galinari , Tony Snell and Solomon Hill is ready for G league.
Hunter- same as Reddish. Basically is now 3rd stringer behind Bogdan and Huerter. Guy is now 3rd stringer at his position.

Bulls and Knicks are having worst off season out there, if you read their forums, they are angry as *** for lack of movment and how little their FO did to even make rosters somewhat competitive. Comes as no suprise that RJ Barrett and Coby will keep their roles for now. Tbh despite having nobody better at guard spot but Satoransky, Coby still won't be starter

[Bensational]

In Pepe's world a player doesn't exist until they're 30, and then they're too old and about to die. Good players under 30 are unicorns and regarded as such. Everybody is doomed anyway so it doesn't matter.

It will be good day when we come back and talk about Coby White in year or two.

For time being we can reminisce all the good old Gordon - Kawhi comparisons from 2015,2016,2017 and 2018

SO how our future DPOY, finals MVP is doing nowdays, 5 years later? How many allstar selections he got? Was he included in all nba first team or Lebron biased media robbed him?

This is his breakout year, I bet ya

Nah actually, I think if he can come back playing like he did post ASB (passing more, posting more, taking and making sensible shots) then it could give us a sneaky push for a hot start. I'm expecting Evan and Vuc to come back in strong form again.

Fultz will be our X Factor. Can he step up and demand a bigger seat at the table? Off the bench it's how much of a step down Cole is from DJ to begin. I expect him to start very conservatively, making the pass over taking the shot, just to prove he can be that guy.

And then we'll always be a coin toss decision as to how competitive we'll be that night.

If the guys come back and start the season with defeated attitudes then we're in trouble. If they come in hot and looking to prove people wrong, we could be an early Cinderella story waiting to come back down to earth.

[zaymon]

In Pepe's world a player doesn't exist until they're 30, and then they're too old and about to die. Good players under 30 are unicorns and regarded as such. Everybody is doomed anyway so it doesn't matter.

It will be good day when we come back and talk about Coby White in year or two.

For time being we can reminisce all the good old Gordon - Kawhi comparisons from 2015,2016,2017 and 2018

SO how our future DPOY, finals MVP is doing nowdays, 5 years later? How many allstar selections he got? Was he included in all nba first team or Lebron biased media robbed him?

This is his breakout year, I bet ya

Nah actually, I think if he can come back playing like he did post ASB (passing more, posting more, taking and making sensible shots) then it could give us a sneaky push for a hot start. I'm expecting Evan and Vuc to come back in strong form again.

Fultz will be our X Factor. Can he step up and demand a bigger seat at the table? Off the bench it's how much of a step down Cole is from DJ to begin. I expect him to start very conservatively, making the pass over taking the shot, just to prove he can be that guy.

And then we'll always be a coin toss decision as to how competitive we'll be that night.

If the guys come back and start the season with defeated attitudes then we're in trouble. If they come in hot and looking to prove people wrong, we could be an early Cinderella story waiting to come back down to earth.

If our rotation consists of Fultz, Anthony, Okeke and Bamba i see it as a win- win season. I also expect less Fournier on ball and more Fultz/Anthony ( only if they can handle it). We are positioned to benefit either we win or lose. If we win with such a young rotation we will be years ahead of Hawks, Wizards, Pistons, Hornets. If we lose we can ship Fournier, Gordon possibly Vucevic at the deadline and pivot to soft rebuild

[Ducklett]

It will be good day when we come back and talk about Coby White in year or two.

For time being we can reminisce all the good old Gordon - Kawhi comparisons from 2015,2016,2017 and 2018

SO how our future DPOY, finals MVP is doing nowdays, 5 years later? How many allstar selections he got? Was he included in all nba first team or Lebron biased media robbed him?

This is his breakout year, I bet ya

Nah actually, I think if he can come back playing like he did post ASB (passing more, posting more, taking and making sensible shots) then it could give us a sneaky push for a hot start. I'm expecting Evan and Vuc to come back in strong form again.

Fultz will be our X Factor. Can he step up and demand a bigger seat at the table? Off the bench it's how much of a step down Cole is from DJ to begin. I expect him to start very conservatively, making the pass over taking the shot, just to prove he can be that guy.

And then we'll always be a coin toss decision as to how competitive we'll be that night.

If the guys come back and start the season with defeated attitudes then we're in trouble. If they come in hot and looking to prove people wrong, we could be an early Cinderella story waiting to come back down to earth.

If our rotation consists of Fultz, Anthony, Okeke and Bamba i see it as a win- win season. I also expect less Fournier on ball and more Fultz/Anthony ( only if they can handle it). We are positioned to benefit either we win or lose. If we win with such a young rotation we will be years ahead of Hawks, Wizards, Pistons, Hornets. If we lose we can ship Fournier, Gordon possibly Vucevic at the deadline and pivot to soft rebuild

Respectfully disagree. You can't send Fournier, Gordon, and Vuc out there to lose before the trade deadline. You gotta make them options A,B, and C to increase their trade value as much as possible, then pop them all out at the deadline. If we are mad losing with those three as the top 3 options, who in their right mind is going to bail us out with a trade? The losing (or winning) will solely be placed on them.

[Knightro]

it's funny who you picked, outside of tragic Knicks, all others are already being replaced by their teams as they have zero desire to keep investing PT in trash projects:

Jarrett Culver- replaced by Beasly and Edwards, basically guy today is already 3rd string SG on roster
Cam Reddish- with Bogdanovic, Huerter, Galinari , Tony Snell and Solomon Hill is ready for G league.
Hunter- same as Reddish. Basically is now 3rd stringer behind Bogdan and Huerter. Guy is now 3rd stringer at his position.

Bulls and Knicks are having worst off season out there, if you read their forums, they are angry as *** for lack of movment and how little their FO did to even make rosters somewhat competitive. Comes as no suprise that RJ Barrett and Coby will keep their roles for now. Tbh despite having nobody better at guard spot but Satoransky, Coby still won't be starter

I will kindly bet you whatever terms you want that both Reddish and Hunter are in the Hawks rotation this season.

Barrett and White are obviously going to be starters for their teams

The only one that that is even questionable is Culver, but I suspect he's going to play backup wing minutes as well.

[pepe1991]

it's funny who you picked, outside of tragic Knicks, all others are already being replaced by their teams as they have zero desire to keep investing PT in trash projects:

Jarrett Culver- replaced by Beasly and Edwards, basically guy today is already 3rd string SG on roster
Cam Reddish- with Bogdanovic, Huerter, Galinari , Tony Snell and Solomon Hill is ready for G league.
Hunter- same as Reddish. Basically is now 3rd stringer behind Bogdan and Huerter. Guy is now 3rd stringer at his position.

Bulls and Knicks are having worst off season out there, if you read their forums, they are angry as *** for lack of movment and how little their FO did to even make rosters somewhat competitive. Comes as no suprise that RJ Barrett and Coby will keep their roles for now. Tbh despite having nobody better at guard spot but Satoransky, Coby still won't be starter

I will kindly bet you whatever terms you want that both Reddish and Hunter are in the Hawks rotation this season.

Barrett and White are obviously going to be starters for their teams

The only one that that is even questionable is Culver, but I suspect he's going to play backup wing minutes as well.

So Hawks roster:
Trae
Bogdan
Galo
Collins
Capela

those are starters, let's not fool ourselfs.

Rondo/Huerter/Solomon Hill/ Tony Snell/ Okongwu/ Fernando

Rondo,Huerter and Okongwu are locked to get rotation min. So Hunter and Reddish are in there ,fighting for what ? 14 mpg?

Barrett isn't terrible, i never said he is. He is just stuck on terrible team.

White will only start if Lavine is starting at PG. If they still get a starting PG, no, he is not starting. it's whoever at PG/ Lavine/Porter / Lauri / Wendell starting 5.
But from everything i could find about Bulls, they will start Satoransky at PG, witch means your boy is back at bench.
For crying out loud, guy started amazing total of ONE game last year.

[Skybox]

it's funny who you picked, outside of tragic Knicks, all others are already being replaced by their teams as they have zero desire to keep investing PT in trash projects:

Jarrett Culver- replaced by Beasly and Edwards, basically guy today is already 3rd string SG on roster
Cam Reddish- with Bogdanovic, Huerter, Galinari , Tony Snell and Solomon Hill is ready for G league.
Hunter- same as Reddish. Basically is now 3rd stringer behind Bogdan and Huerter. Guy is now 3rd stringer at his position.

Bulls and Knicks are having worst off season out there, if you read their forums, they are angry as *** for lack of movment and how little their FO did to even make rosters somewhat competitive. Comes as no suprise that RJ Barrett and Coby will keep their roles for now. Tbh despite having nobody better at guard spot but Satoransky, Coby still won't be starter

I will kindly bet you whatever terms you want that both Reddish and Hunter are in the Hawks rotation this season.

Barrett and White are obviously going to be starters for their teams

The only one that that is even questionable is Culver, but I suspect he's going to play backup wing minutes as well.

So Hawks roster:
Trae
Bogdan
Galo
Collins
Capela

those are starters, let's not fool ourselfs.

Rondo/Huerter/Solomon Hill/ Tony Snell/ Okongwu/ Fernando

Rondo,Huerter and Okongwu are locked to get rotation min. So Hunter and Reddish are in there ,fighting for what ? 14 mpg?

Barrett isn't terrible, i never said he is. He is just stuck on terrible team.

White will only start if Lavine is starting at PG. If they still get a starting PG, no, he is not starting. it's whoever at PG/ Lavine/Porter / Lauri / Wendell starting 5.
But from everything i could find about Bulls, they will start Satoransky at PG, witch means your boy is back at bench.
For crying out loud, guy started amazing total of ONE game last year.

ATL signed Kris Dunn too. He seems like a nice fit next to Trae...I really don't understand why they signed Dunn AND Rondo. I so often hear how Rondo is a sure thing to be a head coach but I can't shake the impression of his disastrous stint in DAL where he was such a locker room disruption.

[basketballRob]

it's funny who you picked, outside of tragic Knicks, all others are already being replaced by their teams as they have zero desire to keep investing PT in trash projects:

Jarrett Culver- replaced by Beasly and Edwards, basically guy today is already 3rd string SG on roster
Cam Reddish- with Bogdanovic, Huerter, Galinari , Tony Snell and Solomon Hill is ready for G league.
Hunter- same as Reddish. Basically is now 3rd stringer behind Bogdan and Huerter. Guy is now 3rd stringer at his position.

Bulls and Knicks are having worst off season out there, if you read their forums, they are angry as *** for lack of movment and how little their FO did to even make rosters somewhat competitive. Comes as no suprise that RJ Barrett and Coby will keep their roles for now. Tbh despite having nobody better at guard spot but Satoransky, Coby still won't be starter

I will kindly bet you whatever terms you want that both Reddish and Hunter are in the Hawks rotation this season.

Barrett and White are obviously going to be starters for their teams

The only one that that is even questionable is Culver, but I suspect he's going to play backup wing minutes as well.

So Hawks roster:
Trae
Bogdan
Galo
Collins
Capela

those are starters, let's not fool ourselfs.

Rondo/Huerter/Solomon Hill/ Tony Snell/ Okongwu/ Fernando

Rondo,Huerter and Okongwu are locked to get rotation min. So Hunter and Reddish are in there ,fighting for what ? 14 mpg?

Barrett isn't terrible, i never said he is. He is just stuck on terrible team.

White will only start if Lavine is starting at PG. If they still get a starting PG, no, he is not starting. it's whoever at PG/ Lavine/Porter / Lauri / Wendell starting 5.
But from everything i could find about Bulls, they will start Satoransky at PG, witch means your boy is back at bench.
For crying out loud, guy started amazing total of ONE game last year.

That looks like an historically bad defensive starting 5 for the Hawks. I like it.

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[cedric76]

it's funny who you picked, outside of tragic Knicks, all others are already being replaced by their teams as they have zero desire to keep investing PT in trash projects:

Jarrett Culver- replaced by Beasly and Edwards, basically guy today is already 3rd string SG on roster
Cam Reddish- with Bogdanovic, Huerter, Galinari , Tony Snell and Solomon Hill is ready for G league.
Hunter- same as Reddish. Basically is now 3rd stringer behind Bogdan and Huerter. Guy is now 3rd stringer at his position.

Bulls and Knicks are having worst off season out there, if you read their forums, they are angry as *** for lack of movment and how little their FO did to even make rosters somewhat competitive. Comes as no suprise that RJ Barrett and Coby will keep their roles for now. Tbh despite having nobody better at guard spot but Satoransky, Coby still won't be starter

I will kindly bet you whatever terms you want that both Reddish and Hunter are in the Hawks rotation this season.

Barrett and White are obviously going to be starters for their teams

The only one that that is even questionable is Culver, but I suspect he's going to play backup wing minutes as well.

So Hawks roster:
Trae Cant defend a chair
Bogdan Cant defend a chair
Galo Cant defend a chair
Collins Cant defend a chair
Capela

those are starters, let's not fool ourselfs.

Rondo/Huerter/Solomon Hill/ Tony Snell/ Okongwu/ Fernando

Rondo,Huerter and Okongwu are locked to get rotation min. So Hunter and Reddish are in there ,fighting for what ? 14 mpg?

Barrett isn't terrible, i never said he is. He is just stuck on terrible team.

White will only start if Lavine is starting at PG. If they still get a starting PG, no, he is not starting. it's whoever at PG/ Lavine/Porter / Lauri / Wendell starting 5.
But from everything i could find about Bulls, they will start Satoransky at PG, witch means your boy is back at bench.
For crying out loud, guy started amazing total of ONE game last year.

They ll miss the playoff and Trae will be very upset